<div style="margin-left:0%; margin-right:0%">
<div class="title">
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
<span class=large>ROMANS</span>
</div>
<div class="subtitle">
CHAPTER 4
</div>
<div class="summary">
Abraham’s faith was imputed to him for righteousness—Man is justified by faith, righteous works, and grace.
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="1"></a>
<div id="rom/4/1" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
What</span> shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="2"></a>
<div id="rom/4/2" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;2 
<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/2a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Rom. 4: 2-5 (Appendix).">For</a> if Abraham were justified by works, he hath <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/2b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR ground, reason for boasting."><i>whereof</i></a> to glory; but not before God.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="3"></a>
<div id="rom/4/3" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;3 
For what saith the scripture?  Abraham <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Faith.">believed</a> God, and it was counted unto him for <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="4"></a>
<div id="rom/4/4" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;4 
Now to him that worketh is the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR wage, hire.">reward</a> not <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR considered a favor but as his due.">reckoned</a> of grace, but of debt.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="5"></a>
<div id="rom/4/5" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;5 
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="6"></a>
<div id="rom/4/6" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;6 
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="7"></a>
<div id="rom/4/7" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;7 
<i>Saying,</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 32: 1.">Blessed</a> <i>are</i> they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="8"></a>
<div id="rom/4/8" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;8 
Blessed <i>is</i> the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="9"></a>
<div id="rom/4/9" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;9 
<i>Cometh</i> this blessedness then upon the circumcision <i>only,</i> or upon the uncircumcision also?  for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="10"></a>
<div id="rom/4/10" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;10 
How was it then reckoned?  when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?  Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="11"></a>
<div id="rom/4/11" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;11 
And he received the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Signs.">sign</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">circumcision</a>, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which <i>he had yet</i> being uncircumcised: that he might be the <sup>c</sup><a href="rom/4/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Abr. 2: 10.">father</a> of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="12"></a>
<div id="rom/4/12" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;12 
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which <i>he had</i> being <i>yet</i> uncircumcised.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="13"></a>
<div id="rom/4/13" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;13 
For the promise, that he should be the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Birthright.">heir</a> of the world, <i>was</i> not to Abraham, or to his <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">seed</a>, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="14"></a>
<div id="rom/4/14" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;14 
For if they which are of the law <i>be</i> heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="15"></a>
<div id="rom/4/15" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;15 
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 5: 13; 2 Ne. 9: 25; Alma 42: 17 (12-24).">law</a> is, <i>there is</i> no <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Transgression.">transgression</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="16"></a>
<div id="rom/4/16" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;16 
<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/16a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Rom. 4: 16 Therefore ye are justified of faith and works, through grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to them only who are of the law, but to them also who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all.">Therefore</a> <i>it is</i> of faith, that <i>it might be</i> by <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a>; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the <sup>c</sup><a href="rom/4/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Faith.">faith</a> of Abraham; who is the <sup>d</sup><a href="rom/4/16d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Family, Patriarchal.">father</a> of us all,
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="17"></a>
<div id="rom/4/17" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;17 
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, <i>even</i> God, who <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Power of; TG Resurrection.">quickeneth</a> the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="18"></a>
<div id="rom/4/18" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;18 
Who against hope believed in <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hope.">hope</a>, that he might become the father of many <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Nations.">nations</a>, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy <sup>c</sup><a href="rom/4/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">seed</a> be.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="19"></a>
<div id="rom/4/19" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;19 
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Old Age.">old</a>, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="20"></a>
<div id="rom/4/20" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;20 
He <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR doubted, hesitated.">staggered</a> not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="21"></a>
<div id="rom/4/21" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;21 
And being fully persuaded that, what he had <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/21a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 18: 14; Luke 1: 37; TG Promises.">promised</a>, he was able also to perform.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="22"></a>
<div id="rom/4/22" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;22 
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="23"></a>
<div id="rom/4/23" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;23 
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="24"></a>
<div id="rom/4/24" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;24 
But for <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 20: 25 (24-27).">us</a> also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="25"></a>
<div id="rom/4/25" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;25 
Who was delivered for our <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/4/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 53: 5; Mark 10: 45.">offences</a>, and was raised again for our <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/4/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justification</a>.
</div>
</div>
